Facts About Earth

1.Earth travels through space at 66,700 miles per hour.

2.From a distance, Earth would be the brightest of the 9 planets. This is because sunlight is reflected by the planet's water.

3. About 400 billion gallons water is used worldwide each day.

4. The Earth is popularly dubbed as the Blue Planet. Astronauts who first went to space describe the entirety of Earth as blue. This is due to the fact that 71% of the planet is covered by bodies if water.

5. Aside from the sun as Earth’s main source of heat energy, humans could theoretically survive without the sun’s heat as the planet’s inner core is hot enough to supply energy to its inhabitants. It is estimated that the core temperature is between 5,000 to 7,000 degrees Celsius. It is just as hot as the sun’s surface too!

6.97% of water on Earth can be found in the oceans, while only 3% of water can be found in fresh water reservoirs and fresh water supply.

7. The pull of gravity differs all over the globe, depending on your distance from the earth’s core. This means that due to the gravitational pull, you are technically lighter or heavier in certain locations in the globe, though you’ll never feel it.

Facts about Love

1. Researchers at the University of Chicago found that people were twice as likely to find a date through friends and family than through the bar scene.

2. Nearly 40% of men do not feel confident meeting a woman for the first time.

3. Studies show that schools, colleges, coffee shops, and malls are all excellent places to flirt because people are more open to meeting others in these places. Poor locations are restaurants and movie theaters.

4. Studies show that before a man even speaks a word, the way he stands (whether he is slouching or not) counts for over 80% of woman’s first impression.

5. Ninety-two percent of single parents would rather date other single parents.

6. Four common date blunders include showing up late, talking about yourself too much, revealing too much about your ex, and an obvious over-eagerness.

7. Approximately 48% of online daters reported that their breakups occurred via email.

8. Over 50% of all singles in America have not had a date in more than two years.

9. If a woman offers to pay for everything, chances are she isn’t that into the date. There’s an unspoken understanding that a man paying for everything is a form of “copulatory gift,” which is almost universal in all animal species.

10. The most common time for breakups is around three to five months.

10 cool facts about Wikipedia

1. Wikipedia has about 4 millions articles published in its all editions in 285 languages and almost all of these articles can be edited by anyone even if he/she is not registered with Wikipedia. Although Wikipedia ask its visitors to not to rely on its content while researching on any topic, but still their content is trustworthy.
2. Anyone can write articles for Wikipedia and edit the articles. No registration is required to write articles and make edits.
3. On 16th January 2012, the Wikimedia Foundation decided to black out the English Wikipedia for 24 hours to record its protest against SOPA(Stop Online Piracy Act), so English Wikipedia website was down for 24 hours. Many well-known websites too supported Wikipedia in this act.
4. In all editions of Wikipedia, English Wikipedia has the most number of articles i.e., 4,177,451. German Wikipedia is second with 1,557,829 articles and French Wikipedia is third in the list with 1,359,330 articles.
5. If you can read 600 words per minute and start reading 24 hours daily, you’ll need seven years to read whole content on Wikipedia but you are not completed yet, by then most of the content will be updated/changed and you’ll need to read it from the scratch.
6. About 1.8 billion edits have been performed on Wikipedia till now. 1st edit was made on 16th January 2001 while 1 billionth edit was made on 16th April 2010.
7. Every minute, about 600 edits made on Wikipedia that means 36,000 edits per hour and 864,000 edits per day. The article with the highest number of edits is about George W Bush i.e. 44,435 while the user who has made highest number of edits is Justin Anthony Knapp of Indiana, United States. Justin Knapp has made more than 1 million edits in different articles on Wikipedia and is still active.
8. One of the most impressive fact about Wikipedia is that there is not a single advertisement on the website. It is a non-profit organization and running its projects on donations that can be made online.
9. Wikipedia has total 29,621,520 pages. It is ranked 6 on Alexa while PR9 on Google. According to an estimate, all the text on Wikipedia will take 10 gigabytes of space on disc.
10. There are about 2500 hits received by Wikipedia every second that is a large amount of requests but Wikipedia has over 350 different servers to entertain these requests.

10 Amazing Facts About Human Body

Our body is amazing. It has lots of mysteries and capabilities even beyond the knowledge of scientists and doctors. In this post, we are going to list 10 amazing facts about human body.

10: Every atom of our body is said to be billions of years old and our body is 70 percent water.

9: By the age of 18, the human brains stop growing.  It even begins to lose more than 1,000 brain cells after such age. Your brain comprises only 2 percent of your body weight but uses up to 20 percent of your body’s energy. Your brain never takes a break even when you are sleeping; the brain is busy working to replenish the brain processes needed to function normally while awake.

8: An average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.

7: It is impossible to sneeze without blinking your eyes. The highest recorded speed of a human sneeze is 165 kilometer per hour.

6: The human body sheds about 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime. Our skin produces antibacterial chemicals to keep germs at a bay. It also produces antimicrobial peptides that protect the body from infection.

5: You can’t swallow and breathe at the same time; however babies can do this but until they are about nine months.

4: Yawning helps you cool your brain. It is an involuntary behavior. When you yawn, the influx of cool air may ventilate your sinuses and facilitate brain cooling.

3: Your heart is said to beat nearly 3 billion times if you live an average life span of seventy years.

2: Your lungs need a lot of breathing room. The total surface area of the lungs is approximately equal to the size of a tennis court.

1: Each person has a unique tongue print just like the fingerprints.

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